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Experimental Keg Policy Goes Into Effect Tomorrow MADISON I LIBRARY e ^Bibeze Vol. LV lames Madison University Tuesday. March2K, I97H No. 12 Experimental keg policy goes into effect tomorrow 'A major step in liberalizing alcohol control9 By KARKN 1IOBBS Party sponsors must Control of individual Beginning tomorrow, two provide an alternative non- parties is placed in the hands experimental alcohol policies alcoholic beverage,other than of the party hosts, Webb said. will allow beer kegs in dorms. water, for guests and are also They are responsible' for The new policies deal with encouraged to provide food controlling the size of the kegs in dorm recreational and refreshments. party and keeping guests rooms, individual rooms and Requests for reservation of within private areas. suites. dorm recreation rooms are Hallways are still considered One keg will be now subject to Hall Council ap- public. allowed per 30 persons in proval. Hall-sponsored parties Staff members will only be recreation rooms, one quarter may be advertised only within involved if size or noise causes keg in an individual room, and the dorm, but private parties complaints. Inter-Hall two quarter kegs in a suite. may not be advertised at all. (Continued on Page 20) These experimental Residence staff members policies form a major step in must routinely check the liberalizing campus alcohol party areas. If they observe control, according to Mike violations of university policy, Review Webb, director of residence they will ask a party host to halls. They allow students "as correct the problem. many privileges as they're The staff will be involved as of tenure willing to take responsibility little as possible. Webb said. for." The policy is designed to ■>• The first policy dealing permit students more choices, planned with recreation rooms allows but more responsibility as four or more dorm residents well. In addition, the party By GARY REED to reserve a dorm party room hosts are responsible for The faculty Senate plans to on a certain date. Each area cleaning up the party room rewrite the procedures for will be available one night per and adjacent areas by 10:00 promotion and tenure by weekend, with the exception a.m. the following morning. asking for suggestions from of the weekend before final The second policy, dealing other faculty members. exams. with individual rooms and Written suggestions will be In compliance with suites, allows students private accepted until March 31 in an Alcoholic Beverage Control parties with quarter kegs. attempt to clarify promotion Board regulations, banquet All parties involving 10 or and tenure procedures. licenses are required if ad- more in a single room or 15 or The senate also announced missions are charged or more in an N-complex suite approval of a new Bachelor of DODGING FALLING the trees on campus, and donations asked. Only beer must be registered by 5 p.m. General Studies degree BRANCHES during Sunday's many off campus students may be served, and no with the hail staff. Financing program that would offer ice storm are students Kevin found themselves without adults an oportunity to return Driscoll and Steve Kish. The power Sunday. alcoholic beverages may be for the party must also be ph served after midnight. arranged by 5 p.m. to school to earn a Storm took its toll on many Of °<° by Wayne Partlow Guest numbers are limited Sale of alcoholic beverages degree. by a fire safety code. All N- and advertising of the party The new undergraduate Desegregation plan: complex recreation rooms are prohibited, and only one program would be geared may accommodate up to 80 quarter keg. two in suite towards the "individualized 9 guests, while other dorm areas, are allowed at one needs, goals and time 'very little impact areas varv from 40-80 guests. time. schedules" of adults who want to return to school but are By TOM DULAN cording to the vice-president restricted from entering on a Virginia's college of administrative affairs. full-time basis. desegregation plan, recently "We have been operating a The degree requires all accepted by the Department very affirmative program for students to complete 128 of Health. Education and several years" regarding semester hours of credit. This Welfare, should have "very minority enrollment, said Dr. includes 24 semester hours of little impact" on James John Mundy. (Continued on Page 13) Madison University, ac- Mundy noted that minority enrollment at JMU has steadily increased from less Council approves minor, than one percent of the student body in fall, 1969, to 1.8 percent in 1973 and almost changes in requirements 2.5 percent in fall, 1976. The 197 minority students enrolled By PATTY SMITH . dealing effectively with for fall, 1976 included 169 The University Council persons on an individual blacks, 16 Hispanics. 10 Thursday approved a new basis, as well as with those in orientals and two American minor in Human Services in groups. Coping with and Indians, he said. addition to approving changes understanding the com- According to Virginia's in degree requirements ■ for plexities of an organization plan, which must be approved sociology majors. will also be stressed, ac- By the federal courts, JMU The Human Services minor cording to the program. should add a minimum 18 was developed as a program The program is structured minority students to the component to three existing to meet the needs of public existing rolls every year major programs-public administration, sociology, beginning with the 1979-1980 adminstrations. sociology and and psychology majors, but school year and continuing psychology, according to a will also be open to any un- through 1982-83. The program outlined by the dergraduate student. recruiting process for 1978-79 Commission on Un- Courses for a minor in has already begun, Mundy dergraduate Studies. Human Services are to be said A minimum of 18 semester selected from the following Mundy believes JMU will hours taken from three dif- list: feel little impact from the plan ferent participating depart- COED 501-Basic Coun- because figures show that ments outside the major will seling Skills minority enrollments here be required. MGT 300- Principles of have increased by an average The minor program is Management of about 25 students per year STAN LEE. publisher of Festival. See stories, designed to prepare students over the past eight years. The Marvel Comics spoke pages two. five and for responsibilities in the POSC 265-Public Ad- current figure of 216 lien- Thursday as part eleven. public service setting. Em- Photo by Wayne Partlow ministration represents an increase of 19 of the IMC Fine Arts phasis will be placed on (Continued on Page 21) (Continued on Page 13) Page2.THK BREEZE, Tuesday.March28.1978 * ■^ I ^*m*. - — m ft \^ *ezt l-uuiided l»22 •' To the press alone, chequered as it it with abuses, the world is indebted tor all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."-- James Madison Ice storm leaves city under siege % By DWAYNE YANCEY which leaves little opportunity 1 KEP TB44N(7 MVSELF TVE P&M60N V&JtP NB^ER ftftSE US TO PM«C^ RAWAjONl^ElS It was like a city under for revenge. — BUTHWKrTlMBrVEGi\€NUSUWU^BUUBS siege. People could only look Sirens wailed as firetrucks through their windows as the and rescue squads raced weight of the ice bowed bushes Kritique: ' through town. All around, dull and small trees, or caused cracks, like bombs bursting, limbs of enormous size to broke the early morning shatter from the trees and fall stillness. to the ground. Lee belies comic's image Power lines were down, the I walked out onto the electricity was off. Streets balcony, a relatively safe By KRIS CARLSON But even though people like In fairness to the comic were filled with the wreckage observation point, and wat- He sat comfortably in the Marvel comics and their book opposition forces, Lee ched as four trees within a admitted guilt in following the and several were blocked off chair, dark glasses on, even superheroes, are comics art? completely. minute broke apart with loud though he was inside. His There are actually some government's propaganda snaps and ci ashes. In the against communists during People peered nervously out shirt sleeves were rolled up people who may not think it of their windows, wondering distance, the breaking trees and his hair was graving, yet appropriate for Stan Lee, now the Red Scare. However, he where the next one might sounded more like what I his mustache was still mostly publisher of Marvel Comics also observed that "Marvel imagine artillery fire to sound Comics is never having to come from or where it would dark. He is left-handed, of (once art director, editor, fall Others, satisfied that the like average build, and speaks etc.), to be a guest at our say you're sorry." The enemy advances. There With each change in the worst of the unexpected on- with an almost nasal quality. illustrious Fine Arts Festival. slaught had passed, merely is no escape. We are doomed. Funny, it's really not how I I, however, disagree, and country's mood, so did the Across the street, a parked mood of Marvel change. milled about, inspecting the pictured him when I was 12. I Lee expressed the same damage or attempting to car was buried beneath a pile imagined him to be somehow feeling when he commented Back to the value of comic clean it up. of branches which had fallen abnormal-really, how could that anything creative is art, No, it wasn't southern during the night. Another limb an intelligent grown man that quality is the only big books.their effectiveness as a means of communication Lebanon, or somewhere in the had fallen onto a doorstep, make a living writing comic determining factor in media Horn of Africa.
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